Good question. I’m using the term “idea” pretty loosely and glossily.
Things that would meet this vague definition of “idea”:
The ELK problem (like going from nothing to “ah, we’ll need a way of eliciting latent knowledge from AIs”)
Identifying the ELK program as a priority/non-priority (generating the arguments/ideas that go from “this ELK thing exists” to “ah, I think ELK is one of the most important alignment directions” or “nope, this particular problem/approach doesn’t matter much”
An ELK proposal
A specific modification to an ELK proposal that makes it 5% better.
So new ideas could include new problems/subproblems we haven’t discovered, solutions/proposals, code to help us implement proposals, ideas that help us prioritize between approaches, etc.
How are you defining “idea” (or do you have a totally different way of looking at things)?
Good question. I’m using the term “idea” pretty loosely and glossily.
Things that would meet this vague definition of “idea”:
The ELK problem (like going from nothing to “ah, we’ll need a way of eliciting latent knowledge from AIs”)
Identifying the ELK program as a priority/non-priority (generating the arguments/ideas that go from “this ELK thing exists” to “ah, I think ELK is one of the most important alignment directions” or “nope, this particular problem/approach doesn’t matter much”
An ELK proposal
A specific modification to an ELK proposal that makes it 5% better.
So new ideas could include new problems/subproblems we haven’t discovered, solutions/proposals, code to help us implement proposals, ideas that help us prioritize between approaches, etc.
How are you defining “idea” (or do you have a totally different way of looking at things)?